Ruby Rossiter explores Bruce Nauman’s 1973 print ‘Clear vision’.
Categories: Artists, Gemini GEL • Tags: Bruce Nauman, Clear vision, Gemini GEL, Kenneth Tyler, lithography, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking
An investigation into one of the first prints made at Gemini Limited and the explosive processes behind it
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: bijin-ga, Catfish envy, etching, intaglio, Kenneth Tyler, Kunisada eclipsed, Longing samurai, Masami Teraoka, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking, Toyohara Kunichika, Tyler Collection, Tyler Graphics Ltd, ukiyo, ukiyo-e, View from here to eternity, woodblock, woodcut, Yasuyuki Shibata
How David Hockney affirmed his identity through the image making process
Categories: Artists
This incredible photo features many well-known artists from Tyler’s printing career. But a question remains unanswered: Who is the photographer?
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Gemini GEL
Marking the beginning of the new ongoing series ‘Reflections on’, this month Assistant Curator of the Kenneth Tyler Collection Ella Morrison responds to the six lithographs that comprise Joe Goode’s ‘The English still life series’ (1967).
Categories: Artists, Gemini GEL, Gemini Ltd., Reflections on • Tags: Gemini GEL, lithography
Malcolm Morley was an artist who defied categorisation during his artistic career. With great sadness, we reflect here on a dynamic artist and his work.
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes • Tags: Malcolm Morley, photorealism, Super Realism
In conjunction with the exhibition ‘David Hockney Prints’ a selection of cancellation proofs are currently on display at the National Gallery of Australia, offering viewers a rare glimpse at this little known practice of print workshops.
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Gemini GEL • Tags: Alice Desmond, Art, canberra, cancellation proofs, David Hockney, hockney, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking, prints, Tyler Collection
With the support of the Tyler Graphics team, Frank Stella was able to create innovative prints that radically reinterpreted the possibilities of printmaking processes and materials. One of our favourite stories about working with Stella is Rodney Konopaki’s recollections of using 17,000 Q-tips to remove ink from the intaglio plates for the Swan engravings series. This project, which developed concurrently with the ground-breaking Circuits series, was radical for the way sculptural cut-offs were assembled onto a board to create a […]
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Art, artists, etching, Frank Stella, ink, intaglio, printmaking, prints, rodney konopaki, swan engravings
Frank Stella’s Circuits series 1982–84 represents a dramatic shift in Stella’s attitude toward printmaking.
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Exhibitions, Technique Tuesday, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Abstract Art, American Art, Art, Circuits series, Exhibition, Frank Stella, matrix, National Gallery of Australia, New York, NGA, printmaking, prints, Relief painting, relief printing, relief prints, sculpture, Stella, technique, Technique Tuesday, Tyler Collection, Tyler Graphics, Tyler Graphics Ltd, woodblock
The creation of the three dimensional Moby Dick (domes) series 1992 was one of the most technically challenging printmaking projects that Kenneth Tyler and Stella undertook in over thirty years of collaboration. To achieve their ambition of creating an edition of sculptural prints, Tyler and his team spent nearly six years perfecting a process that literally pushed printmaking into a new dimension.
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Technique Tuesday, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Art, artists, Behind-the-scenes, etching, Frank Stella, Herman Melville, intaglio, Ken Tyler, Kenneth Tyler, lithography, Moby Dick, National Gallery of Australia, paper, papermaking, printmaking, prints, relief printing, Stella, Tyler Collection, Tyler Graphics, Tyler Graphics Ltd, works on paper
In memory of Ed Baynard we share this touching obituary by Marabeth Cohen-Tyler, first published in The New York Times, 22 November 2016
Categories: Artists • Tags: Art, artists, color, colour, ed baynard, euology, obituary, printmakers, prints
With sadness we share the news that artist Ed Baynard passed away last week on November 8. Baynard was born in Washington DC in 1940 and was known for his still life watercolours, paintings and prints. Baynard worked with Kenneth Tyler and the Tyler Graphics team several times in the 1980s and 1990s, experimenting with woodcut, intaglio, lithography and monotype to create four series. The following essay by Julia Greenstreet was first published in Workshop: The Kenneth Tyler Collection 2015. […]
Categories: Artists • Tags: Art, artists, ed baynard, eulogy, Ken Tyler, Kenneth Tyler, obituary, printmaking, prints, woodblock
Artist Frank Stella and master printer Kenneth Tyler played a significant role in the development of twentieth-century American printmaking. Throughout his career, Stella has been a constant adventurer and highwire act, an ‘unstoppable risk-taker’, as collaborator Tyler described him in April this year.
Categories: Artists, Exhibitions • Tags: Abstract Art, abstraction, artist, arts, Caravaggio, Exhibition, Frank Stella, Kenneth Tyler, Moby Dick, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking, prints, Stella, The fountain, Whitney Museum
This #TechniqueTuesday we’re sharing behind the scenes insight from Workshop: The Kenneth Tyler Collection about Nancy Graves’s first foray into intaglio printing at Tyler Graphics in 1977, where she produced the Synecdoche series
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Technique Tuesday, Tyler Graphics Ltd, Uncategorized
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